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If you want to learn Cantonese in Sydney, then this course is for you.

Travelling or doing business in Hong Kong? Or simply want to communicate with your neighbours and colleagues in multicultural Sydney?

Want to go beyond the basics? Make your interactions deeper and more satisfying. Greater confidence with the language means a more real experience of the other culture.

• Greater skills enable improvisation with the language
• Better conversations with speakers of the other language
• Go beyond ‘Hello, where is the station’! Tell them about yourself and find out what makes them tick.
• Go beyond shallow interactions
• More confidence

This is a second level foundation course. Minimum of 16 hours of prior learning are assumed.

Agenda

During this course the intention is that most of the following topics will be covered, however not necessarily in the order given. Due to the flexible nature of Adult Education classes, parts of the curriculum may be adapted to suit the needs of the class.

• Greetings and describing yourself and others, professions, finding out more about somebody
• Shopping – basic questions like ‘How much does something cost?’, basic vocabulary, colours, quantities, complaints
• Directions, interrogatives – accommodations, getting to places, booking a room
• Likes and dislikes, hobbies and activities, negatives, agreeing and disagreeing, personal opinions
• Social life, daily activities/routines, family and friends
• Grammar practice, pronouns, possessives, demonstratives, present and past time relations, singular and plural
• Practice – dialogues in formal and informal context – role plays. Strategies for language learning. Reading text.

Note:

• In each session there will be great emphasis given to pronunciation (in groups and pairs), which will enhance one’s fluency for communicating in the language.
• Additional materials may be used in the classroom (music, video, etc.) where available and where suitable for the needs of the class.

Objectives

The intended Learning Outcomes for this course are as follows.

By the end of the course the students will be able to:

• Identify and read confidently the writing (alphabet, script, characters)
• Talk about one’s self, a friend, things and events
• Converse using negatives and questions
• Exchange information in a variety of familiar situations
• Have better fluency in conversation
• Have a more extensive vocabulary content
• Gain better learning skills and strategies for language acquisition
• Improve understanding of the language
• Have a better knowledge of the country, its culture and customs

Other Information

Text required: ‘Colloquial CANTONESE’ by Keith s.T. Tong and Gregory James, Routledge, London, 2003. Aprox. $35.00. ISBN # 0415082021. The book is to be used in Cantonese Level 1 and Cantonese Level 2.

All books can be obtained from Abbeys Bookstore in York St in the City, where Sydney community College students can get 10% discount.

GEOS College is located on Level 5, 56–58 York Street
Sydney (between Market & King Sts).

PLS NOTE: All classes need a minimum number of students to go ahead. If your course does not have enough students it will be cancelled and you will be informed. ***Please be aware that you maybe be informed of a cancellation &/or change via SMS or E-mail.

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